One side or the other

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Dear Editor:

In the penultimate paragraph of your editorial on the Assembly of First Nations' charter you speak of "sides."

(September 2004-"The AFN exists-and absorbs millions of dollars every year-because First Nations people have a different way of looking at the world. If First Nations leaders want to act like Canadian elites, they've joined the other side.")

If you take the view that you have to be on one side or the other, there is little if any chance for meaningful co-operation and the only remaining avenue is confrontation. Is that what you are promoting?

-Dale Peters